Cirrus@Austlit

'Australia's most powerful lighthouse sits on a salt-dusted headland at Cape Byron, on the mainland's easternmost tip. Since 1901, its silver beam has been beloved by the wild things living on the headland and in the waters of the bay, and by the people of the town itself. When the lighthouse decides it can no longer relate to the ships which now pass without ever visiting the once busy little port, it switches itself off... and issues the townsfolk with an ultimatum.'

Source: Author's blurb.

'My relationship with mathematics was dead and done by the time I was thirteen. It would be another two years of pain and humiliation before the glorious intervention of my school principal separated us for good.'

Source: Opening lines.

'Once upon a time, when World War II was just ended and possibilities were again whispering over Europe, a German dancer met an Australian doctor in Hamburg’s Zillertal beerhouse. Infatuated, they married on the other side of the world. Under Queensland’s diamond light, the dancer negotiated differences like canyons until a bright-feathered fedora changed her life forever.'

Source: Author's blurb.

'As the biggest names in film gather at a plush Brisbane hotel to celebrate the reprise of the Australian stars' internationally renowned movie franchise, relationships unravel and closely guarded secrets are revealed.'

Source: Author's blurb.